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• 💚Ⴚгɘɘɲʍɑɳ💚 Aug 3, 2013

  Oh no apology necessary! I actually never verified his story, and now wonder myself! It seems totally plausible though, but the official story now seems to never actually explains how Dole acquired the pineapples for those canneries in 1900 or whatever.

  Eitherway i know for a fact dole no longer cans pineapples in Hawaii. They only grow them there now.
• 💚Ⴚгɘɘɲʍɑɳ💚 Aug 3, 2013

  Actually the version he told me was way more interesting. So im gonna just go with it.

  Pretty much it went...

  Pineapples were only native to South America before 1900 or so. Hence the South American countries carefully guarded pineapple plantations with troops from their militaries, so no other country would be able to grow them as well.

  The pineapple was a major cash crop back in those times, and Paraguay, Brazil, and other S.American countries out produced any grown in the Bahamas.

  This led to other tropical territory holding countries trying to steal them, and cultivate them to break the monopoly.
• 💚Ⴚгɘɘɲʍɑɳ💚 Aug 3, 2013

  This led to Hawaii, or whoever, sending specialized agents to those countries whose sole mission objective being to smuggle one of them out of their country of origin.

  Pretty neat story if true or not lol!
• 💚Ⴚгɘɘɲʍɑɳ💚 Aug 3, 2013

  But come to think of it, why wouldn't Hawaii just import some at whatever their cost was, and acquire them that way?

  It seems much more cost effective than sending agents to smuggle them...

  So in retrospect my friend might have told the story wrong...

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